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mustafar0111 t1_j52eahn wrote

They have better uses for telescopes in space like research.

If you really wanted to do that place a dozen or so telescopes around the world and have them live feed their auto-stretch target data to a website.

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Timetraveler01110101 OP t1_j52f8os wrote

What better use could there be other than to spark people’s interest in space and the realization we can pool our resources to get there

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mustafar0111 t1_j52frjm wrote

Science. Astrophysicists can use the telescopes to learn how the universe actually works and refine theories. Telescopes are expensive and complicated to put in space and they can make better use of those then we can.

For just public interest telescopes on earth will do just fine if you setup the right equipment. Some of the newer automated one can do the entire process from image acquisition to stacking and auto post-processing live.

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Timetraveler01110101 OP t1_j52g7my wrote

I refuse to accept your line of thinking. Until we have FTL travel might as well enjoy looking up while we learn

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mustafar0111 t1_j52gt6j wrote

You can look up anytime you want. No one is stopping you. You can even buy a telescope if you want.

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